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Easy map data downloads for graphic designers

6 months ago

from Adventures In Mapping in cartography

Graphic designers! Here’s an easy way to grab beautiful accurate open map data for your design work. Real data. No tracing. Download vector map data...

It's Groundhog Day (Again & Again & Again)

6 months ago

from Maps Mania in cartography

Draw complex polygons in ArcGIS Pro, super fast

6 months ago

from Adventures In Mapping in cartography

Sometimes I realize that in the amount of time I’ve spent looking for detailed data, I could have just created it. Often, water polygons at the scale...

Synchronized Street View Tours

6 months ago

from Maps Mania in cartography

Going Live

6 months ago

from somethingaboutmaps in cartography

I know it’s short notice, but I wanted to let you all know that I’m doing a livestream tomorrow. It’s been well over 2½ years since my last one. I’ll...

The USA is Closing for Business

6 months ago

from Maps Mania in cartography

Old World Language Families

6 months ago

from Map of the Week in cartography

This isn’t a map, though there are small maps embedded, but an awesome graphic using the tree metaphor to detail the spread of languages. The size...

Automatically Mapping YouTube Videos

6 months ago

from Maps Mania in cartography

Latitude Twins

6 months ago

from Map of the Week in cartography

This map, on Reddit shows major North American cities replaced by European or Middle Eastern ones with the same approximate latitude. It...

Your Personal AI Travel Guide

6 months ago

from Maps Mania in cartography

Los Angeles Wildfire Extent

6 months ago

from Map of the Week in cartography

The extent of the forest fires in and around Los Angeles is horrific and may become even worse in the next few days. The New York Times has some very...

Submission – Official Map: Madrid Cercanías Rail Network, December 2024

7 months ago

from Transit Maps in cartography

Submitted by Juan, who says: I send the new version of the Renfe-Madrid Cercanías network. It seems to me that it has improved quite a lot the...

Fastest Growing and Shrinking Cities

7 months ago

from Map of the Week in cartography

This map shows the fastest growing and shrinking cities in the United States and Canada using 2023 data. The map appears on Visual...

Journey’s End

7 months ago

from somethingaboutmaps in cartography

Nearly five years ago, I completed a project that, to my mind, remains the most significant of my cartographic career: An Atlas of Great Lakes...

Merry Gridmas!

7 months ago

from Map of the Week in cartography

Gridviz is a Javascript library for visualizing gridded (raster) data. They created a Christmas themed map showing land use with holiday...

Indiana I-69 Time Zone Crossing

7 months ago

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places in cartography

If you’re driving along Indiana’s portion of Interstate 69, say from Evansville to Bloomington, you are going to cross a Time Zone boundary. It...

Women in GIS Workshop

7 months ago

from Adventures In Mapping in cartography

If you aren’t doing anything else on the allotted 2.5 hours of January 24, 2025, then consider tuning in to this Women in GIS workshop where I’ll...

Submission – Unofficial Map: Tramways in Gdańsk, Poland by Arsen Mosiichuk, 2024

7 months ago

from Transit Maps in cartography

Submitted by Arsen, who says: Hello, this summer I with Sergey Steblina as art-director designed a transit map of Gdańsk trams. I am very interested...

My Favorite New Jersey Drone Map

7 months ago

from Map of the Week in cartography

Here is my favorite “map” showing the drone hysteria over New Jersey. It’s from Instagram user wmh_x_0, aka Oona Harrigan. It is based on these...

How to make this drought map in ArcGIS Online

7 months ago

from Adventures In Mapping in cartography

Here’s how to make the drought map used in the Drought Aware app. This video covers creating a custom imagery basemap, modified to best support...

Book Review: “Iconic Transit Maps” by Mark Ovenden, 2024

7 months ago

from Transit Maps in cartography

After 2003’s Metro Maps of the World and 2015’s Transit Maps of the World (our review here), this is Mark Ovenden’s third offering on the subject of...

Ice Flows in Greenland

8 months ago

from Map of the Week in cartography

The Atlas of the Invisible was published a few years ago. The maps show trends in the earth’s climate and demographics that are largely hidden to the...

Three Maps & the Truth

8 months ago

from Adventures In Mapping in cartography

You may have heard that “all maps lie” and that’s right (also, here’s some required reading). Each map is a collection of compromises, whether they’re...

30 Day Map Challenge-One Final Note

8 months ago

from Map of the Week in cartography

In writing yesterday’s post I forgot about this awesome music video about the 30 Day Map Challenge. The lyrics are French with English subtitles and...

15% Off All Prints in the “Transit Maps” Store

8 months ago

from Transit Maps in cartography

Just a reminder that the best way to support the site is by buying a print from our online store, because you get something awesome in return! We’re...

The Salt Front

8 months ago

from Map of the Week in cartography

The salt front is the point where a river becomes too salty to be safe for drinking water. The front moves upstream from the river’s mouth as less...

Osage Orange

8 months ago

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places in cartography

It seemed strange to fixate on a single tree for more than a decade but that’s exactly what happened. I notice it a few weeks every autumn and then...

Along Narnia’s Enchanted Shores

8 months ago

from Musings on Maps in cartography

As we face an age when the norms of legal conduct in the United States stand to be shredded, we have been suggested to benefit from looking, both for...

Submission – Unofficial Diagram of Victorian Ferry Routes, 2024 by Bushland Maps

8 months ago

from Transit Maps in cartography

Submitted by Bushland Maps, who say: Ferries are a bit of a forgotten mode of transport in Melbourne. With no integration into the fare system or...

30 Day Map Challenge-Admiring the Work of Others

8 months ago

from Map of the Week in cartography

For the past several years November for me has meant working on the 30 Day Map Challenge. This year I’ve been too busy to participate - also I really...

The Dream Lives

8 months ago

from somethingaboutmaps in cartography

I know lately I’ve been in commercial mode, pointing you toward various projects of mine that you can support by giving me money. And I promise I’ll...

GIS Day 2024

8 months ago

from Adventures In Mapping in cartography

They say it’s the mappiest day of the year, but here’s a short video we made for GIS Day way back at the mappiest place on earth (aka the Esri User...

Submission – Historical Map: Duluth Transit Authority, 1982

8 months ago

from Transit Maps in cartography

Submitted by Darryl, who says: Going through old boxes in my basement, I came across this 1982 opus from the Duluth Transit Authority. I may be biased...

Kickstarter 3: The Return

8 months ago

from somethingaboutmaps in cartography

For the past several years, I’ve enjoyed the process of cyanotype printing, and have released a number of projects based on this technique (including...

Countries with Women Leaders

8 months ago

from Map of the Week in cartography

Here is a map from the Washington Post, via Reddit showing countries past & present with women as heads of state. Click it (and then again) for higher...

Swing States, Battleground States and Hot Spots

9 months ago

from Musings on Maps in cartography

Are the maps of President Trump's 2024 electoral evidence of a sudden shift or deep undercurrents of disaffection? The sudden partisan shift of...

This One

9 months ago

from Map of the Week in cartography

This one map (via New York Times) tells you quite a bit about what happened in the U.S. Election on Tuesday. Aside from a few strange outliers...

Vignettes for the Win!

9 months ago

from Adventures In Mapping in cartography

A vignette is a darkening (or lightening) of the edges of a composition, to subtly frame it and draw the eye in to the middle. It’s an old...

The Office of the Geographer and Art of the Deal

9 months ago

from Musings on Maps in cartography

There is plenty of blame going round this election cycle on the Democratic Party for having given material assistance–if not tacitly supported–the...

Great American Beer Festival (and More)

9 months ago

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places in cartography

I hinted at ulterior motives in the last article about my long weekend in Denver. I didn’t travel all the way out there just to casually tour around....